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About 45 minutes before tip-off at the Illinois men's basketball team’s game against Penn State last weekend, CJ Sizemore and The Singing Men retreated into the tunnel at the North end of State Farm Center and walked deep into the arena's bowels.

On Saturday, the 35th annual Insect Fear Film Festival will take place in Foellinger Auditorium at the University of Illinois. As part of the celebration, this week's Environmental Almanac features the writing of UI graduate students Nicholas Anderson, Samniqueka Halsey, Todd Johnson, Tanya Josek and Erin Welsh, who conduct research on insects and related arthropods.

Listed are permits for all new single-family and multifamily residences as well as commercial and industrial work and residential remodeling costing over $25,000. Permits are listed by applicant, description, site and cost.

CHAMPAIGN — At Parkland College's Tony Noel Agricultural Applications Center on Wednesday, students were installing row unit modules on a planter that will be used in test fields to show off the latest in precision ag technology.

For sports autograph aficionados, it's the most wonderful time of the year: spring training gets under way Monday. We asked this week's panel to tell us about the first time they hit up a celebrity for their signature.

The keystone of Gov. Bruce Rauner's 2019 budget — a plan to shift the cost of pension payments from the state to universities and local school districts over four years — is "a nonstarter," says state Rep. Chad Hays, R-Catlin. He's not alone in his assessment.